Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Infrastructure investment builds resilience. Urgent action is needed, as city temperatures rise and millions are exposed to the risks of rising seas and storms.
- In 2016, deadly landslides hit Rano, South Sulawesi, harming Elsi Bura Tasik's family. Now she is a community leader in CSW DREAM program, helping to build resilience.
- A well-updated education will help the country as well as the region to have successful learners and well- informed citizens who can build resilience in society. Quality education not only helps to bring economic prosperity in the region, but it also improves individual as well as the institutional caption on climate change mitigation, adaptation and...
- Known for its bustling technology sector and expanding economy, Romania is also among the most vulnerable in the European Union to earthquakes. More than 75% of the population lives in areas that could be hit by earthquakes at any time, and in the last 100 years more than 400,000 people have been affected by 13 separate quakes. Moreover, 45% of all...
- Willingness to participate in disasters is usually overlooked and not addressed in disaster preparedness training courses to ensure health service coverage. This will lead to issues during the disaster's response. This study, therefore, aims to assess healthcare workers willingness to participate in biological and natural disasters, and to identify...
- The population of Burundi is more than 90% rural with a young population (44% under 15 years) and a high fertility rate, even if in decrease compared to previous statistics (5.5 per woman - DHS 2016-2017). Burundi has made significant progress in human development and poverty reduction since mid-2000. Burundi's economy grew between 2010...
- The 2017-2022 Philippine development plan recognizes that road infrastructure is a key point of convergence with productive sectors, but the quality remains inadequate. The KALSADA-conditional matching grant to provinces (CMGP) program was developed by the national government to help local government units (LGUs) improve the quality of provincial roads,...
- The 2017-2022 Philippine Development Plan recognizes that road infrastructure is a key point of convergence with productive sectors, but the quality remains inadequate. As of 2015, 97 percent (of 31,242 km) of national roads, 62 percent (of 15,377 km) of city roads, and 29 percent (of 31,075 km) of provincial roads were paved. The World Economic Forum-Global...
- As California's wildfire season intensifies, residents want to ban building in areas of high risk, while homeowners want to rebuild in the same place hit by disaster.
- This article provides a list of 10 European startups tackling disasters, reflecting the increasing importance of disaster and crisis management.